ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 353373
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| Date: | Saturday 8 May 1999 |
| Time: | 17:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-24-250 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N7001P |
| MSN: | 24-2146 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1300 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Southern Pines, NC -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Ahoskie, NC (KASJ) |
| Newport News, VA | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight departed Wadesboro, North Carolina, en route to Newport News, Virginia, with a planned fuel stop in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Upon arriving in Newport News, the pilot attempted to lower the landing gear and noticed an unsafe landing gear indication. Normal and emergency procedures for retraction of the landing gear were unsuccessful. The pilot elected to divert to Southern Pines, North Carolina. He performed a wheels-up landing on the grass between the two runways and during landing rollout, the aircraft impacted a ditch. An examination of the airplane revealed that the strap bracket assembly was missing the nut that attaches it to the main landing gear spring attachment bracket. As a result, the left landing gear had come loose and reversed direction, preventing the landing gear from fully extending and locking in the down position.
Probable Cause: A failure of the left main landing gear retraction assembly as a result of the disconnection of the left main landing gear strap bracket assembly from the main gear spring attachment bracket due to the missing nut. A factor was the ditch.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL99LA082
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 09-Mar-2024 13:20 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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